How can universities forge practical partnerships that contain ever-increasing costs while aligning with their mission to serve the public? You are invited to an online conversation Jan. 24 about the book The Synthetic University: How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself. Author James Shulman, vice president and chief operating officer of the American Council of Learned Societies and former senior fellow at the Mellon Foundation, will be interviewed by Mitchell Stevens, professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education.

This conversation is the first of three Academic Innovation for the Public Good events in winter/spring 2024, co-organized by Stanford Digital Education and Trinity College. Program partners include the Badavas Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (Bentley University), Brown University School of Professional Studies, Dartmouth College, Mount Holyoke College, Notre Dame Learning (University of Notre Dame), Penn’s Online Learning Initiative, and University of Michigan Center for Academic Innovation.